Well, okay.
One thing I didn't mention. (Though it should've been obvious from L's conversation with Ozpin from last chapter as much as Chapter 5 says otherwise, this is hinting at something else that has happened in the past which was also hinted with Ozpin's conversation with L.) Is that L defeated the pre-half maiden version of Cinder, not an easy feat for a regular individual, unfortunately his foe is more devious than he imagined.
But one thing you might be wondering is why the Hell would Dust of all things affect his healing factor if he's been there for 10 years? Surely he should've known about this? Well, being honest, this isn't a plot convenience thing.
Think about it, L has spent that 10 years going to a school where there were no recorded injuries for L, because he straight up brute forces and out thinks anyone that attempts to fight him and even in the combat sessions for him he never really was in any real danger not only because of the fear factor he could put out because of his rumoured legendary strength and raw power but also because of safety implementations that places like Beacon don't really have.
Not pointing any fingers there Professor Blunt Ozpin.
Even when he was setting up the Network, most of the work is done through proxies and other indirect methods, he was in almost no danger at all. If you're starting an information based organisation then it's best if you keep yourself anonymous. Yes he could've been mugged or caught up in a bank robbery but being honest that's unlikely.
Sorry I just had to get that off my chest.
"Blood makes you Related, Loyalty and Love makes you Family." - Chris Diaz (Not dead on, but it's basically my version of what he said.)
Enjoy!
Approximately 2 days after previous events.
Patch, the home of the family.
Deep breath in. Purpose. Execute.
She opens her eyes and roars as she charges forward and punches the punching bag as hard as she can.
"OW! owowowowowowowieee!" Ruby shouts shaking her hand inside the boxing glove, L and Yang sitting at the side laughing their heads off, Taiyang trying not to laugh as he walks over to Ruby, checking her wrist before teaching her a proper stance and how to execute a punch properly, determination never leaving her expression.
"She's growing up fast." L comments whilst looking at Ruby.
"I haven't grown up at all." Yang comments, to which L smiles and lets out a huff of amusement, his eyes their usual purple.
"Don't worry, this planet is too cut and dry for you not to." L comments right back at her with sarcasm, eliciting Yang to go to punch his arm which is caught by L.
The two instantly grin as they read each others mind.
"Guys not now, not unless all three of us fight him. You start Beacon tomorrow you two." At this L smirks, letting go of Yang's fist and standing opposite Taiyang and Ruby, Yang joining them.
"Still mad about the last time?" L jabs as he removes his leather jacket and hoodie, revealing a white shirt with the collars on his neck standing more clearly.
"Nah, but one things for sure." Ruby and Yang grab their weapons as Taiyang gets into stance.
"It'll actually be a fair fight." At this L lets out a dark chuckle before turning around with a grin that made their stomachs sink.
"Oh you have no idea how much Fun this is going to be." He says with a quieter and slightly more...demonic...voice.
"That's not freaky at all." Yang comments sarcastically.
"Athem!" At this everyone turns to Summer.
"We have guests coming over to meet us and I don't want the front yard trashed before they get here." At this everyone remains silent before Yang speaks up.
"Wooooould you...like to join us?" At this Summer grabs her weapons and walks over to join the rest of her family other than L, who shakes his head in amusement, turning away from his family.
"So, remember, no weapons and please try not to break any bones." Taiyang states, L nodding as he pops his joints, drawing what looks like a symbol on the ground around him with a foot.
"Know your enemy." He starts as he sits down and looks at his family. "Know yourself." He sits in the position to meditate, an orb forming in his hands. "And you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. Sun Tzu." L quotes before his family charge at him, he doesn't move until the last second where he dashes backwards and a clone joins him, they smirk and get into stance.
"Know your enemy and know yourself." They say in unison as they both get into a different stances, beckoning their prey forward into the jaws of the predator. The purple reptilian eyes being all the proof needed to cement the feeling of fear into the very roots of their being.
However, elsewhere, they're being used to heal.
Atlas, Schnee Mansion, the same time.
"You sure she's okay?" Winter asks as L exits her room, L having a soft smile on his face signifying the best case scenario.
"She'll recover by tonight, her skeletal structure is largely intact so I was able to repair 99% of it. If anything she's improved from the experience, but I still want to psychologically evaluate her." L says as he turns to see Winter who's worry for her younger sister has dampened but remains.
Corvo who L needs to have a conversation with about his worsening health which he's hiding very well, but will show soon. A slightly shorter individual with abnormal brain activity who is apparently named Klein, Syrus is already collecting scans. As well as last but not least, the man who needs no introduction.
Asshole.
"Thank you for rescuing my daughter, as much as I know how everyone here views me, I am thankful, believe it or not." His tone is honest, but lacks any emotion to uphold it. "The deal stands, a supply line of dust to, ah, our little secret and in exchange, a favour when I need it." He holds his hand out to shake, which L does, eliciting Jacques to smile.
"I'll leave you to your own devices, feel free to stay in the lounge, ask Klein for anything you should need. Good afternoon Commander." At this he nods and starts walking away, all four of them making sure he turns the corner before entering Weiss's bedroom, the girl staring out the window as she sits on her bed, all cleaned up and healed though the fact she's holding her head suggests she has a headache at the very least.
Obviously because her injuries were minor, not due to any...advanced technological, spiritual or magical related doings.
"Feel better?" L asks, Weiss looking at the four of them as Klein sets down a cup of hot liquid on the bedside cabinet.
"Much. Thank you." Weiss says quietly giving Klein a smile as a form of thanks, which he happily returns.
"Respectfully ma'am, I've been wanting to ask you this since you got back..." Corvo starts, L standing off to the shadowy sides of the room to keep an eye on everyone, natural instinct for a predator such as himself.
Weiss looks over to Corvo as he continues. "How did they take you?" At this Weiss looks back, L looking through the memories.
He doesn't like what he's seen.
"Someone grabbed me before the crowd could get me and jumped out the window with me whilst I was on their shoulder then...nothing." At this L lets out a deep growl in his throat, Winter turning to him.
"Sedative, now we know the riot was likely a distraction for an agent to grab one of the Schnee's before security pushed them back." L evaluates, Corvo nodding at L, coming to the same conclusion. "Did you get a look at their face?"
"No, but it was female, definitely female, probably long hair from how her hood covered her. She covered herself with old looking rags that formed a brown cloak, the same stuff the old priests would wear during the ancient days, not stuff I would expect from anyone other than a homeless person." At this Klein intervenes.
"I think it would be best for Ms. Schnee to rest for now." He says in as a polite a tone as he can.
"Yes Klein, I think that would be prudent. It's a big day tomorrow." At this L chuckles from his position in a shadow covered area.
"You're not going to Beacon yet." At this Weiss's eyes widen.
"What!?"
"I'm not letting you near a combat school until I know you're ready for it." L says with conviction.
"Bu-" "Weiss...You know it's the right thing to do." Winter interrupts.
At this, Weiss's expression solidifies into one of a mixture of determination and outrage.
"No! I Will be going to Beacon tomorrow! I'm ready." At this L pushes himself off the wall and stands between Winter and Corvo.
"Then prove it to me." L's smirk is one of mischief but at the same time offering confidence, to which Weiss nods.
"Corvo, Klein, Winter, let's let Weiss get dressed, I want to see what she has to offer Beacon, I'll be doing an evaluation immediately afterwards." At this everyone leaves the room, Winter giving Weiss a look of support before closing the door.
To Weiss, this is a chance to prove she's ready for the challenges ahead and the responsibilities of being a Huntress. However, something intrigued her.
The boy that saved her life could be no older than herself yet seemed every part more skilled and powerful. Yes Hunters and Huntresses are military in Atlas but the equipment himself and his friend were wearing weren't military in design, especially his accent.
And double especially what he did with his Aura to heal her no more than a minute ago.
His eyes suggested Faunus heritage however that seemed to be the only thing that conveyed it to her, no tail, no ears, no nothing. Just really, really, scary looking eyes. The fear dulled however when she saw the smile, the smile of someone with the kindest soul ever.
He's definitely military, she remembers faintly his counterpart referring to him as 'sir' suggesting a leading role even.
However she knew nothing about him other than her observations and anything she'd heard.
Everything about the boy made her...curious.
She shook her head and got better dressed with her 'combat skirt' and all. Taking a metallic case from under her bed and setting it on her bed. Opening up the case she ran a finger over her handcrafted weapon, not by her obviously, but it was pretty much designed by her. Pretty much.
Myrtenaster, the multi-action dust rapier. That sounds so bad.
Why not Multi-Action Revolving Dust Rapier? Yeah I'm using that from now on.
She smiles lightly to herself as she picks up the weapon, feeling no difference in the weight since she last held it, if anything it felt lighter.
She walks to the centre of the room and gives it a couple of test swings before looking into her mirror off to the side. "Mirror, tell me something, tell me who's the loneliest of all?..." She repeats to herself quietly as she runs a finger down it, closing her eyes, soon elevating her voice to the tone she uses to sing.
"Mirror, tell me something, tell me who's the loneliest of all?...Fear of whats inside of me; tell me can a heart be turned to stone?" Her voice barely echoes down most of the corridors, L's ears picking up her whisper beforehand, now smiling to himself as he hears the song that would make birds of sweeter tunes jealous.
"Your song is beautiful...but it is the meaning that I find the most heartbreaking...yet it is not my heart that weeps, it is yours that cracks like the stained glass panes on the windows." L recites, Winter turning to look at him with a quizzical expression.
"Nothing, she'll be here soon after she's got her confidence up." Winter nods, looking back out at the large training room. "What will she be facing?" She asks. At this L gives off a smile.
"From her memories, I think she'll be ready for this." He clicks his finger and a video feed of a giant suit of armour is standing in a cage. "Your father helped me get it, Wraiths are difficult to find in the region nowadays." Winter frowns but doesn't voice her concerns.
L places a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "She'll be fine." L flickers slightly but maintains his presence eliciting Winter to look at him with concern, L waving it off. "I'm detecting an increase of powdered Dust in the air." (I'm detecting a temperature decrease.) At this, Weiss enters the room from the double doors. "Everyone is entitled to their own sorrow. Hearts are not comparable, nor metric, with no form of measure because all of it is irreplaceable. Monty Oum." L quotes as the monster currently trapped walks into the room with the girl of ice.
As she walks forward she stops a few metres from it, examining the giant suit of armour with an equally massive broadsword to go with it. Her expression doesn't change as she backflips away just in time as the broadsword lands exactly where she was, debris sprouting up from the ground as it crashes into the concrete, L smiling to himself.
"Alright then, it's time to show me you're ready Snow White."
Weiss unsheathes Myrtenaster and darts forward, getting a hit on her enemy before twirling into a landing. The giant armor swings again, but she dashes away and lands several spinning slashes on the creature. It retaliates when she launches herself upwards into the air, arcing its sword around and hitting Weiss' rapier, which she brings up just in time to merely knock her back, landing on her feet.
When she slows down, Weiss looks up to see the Wraith in armour leaping into the air and hurling the sword down on her, then swinging it back up in an effort to get its fast-moving target. It finally hits her blade again and is knocked away until she rolls back on her feet.
Winter mentally frowns as L's expression turns to a more serious one rather than the excited one he wore earlier. Go on the attack Weiss. Attack. Winter mentally thinks to herself, hoping that somehow the words would be conveyed through the glass and into Weiss's mind, funny how there's a telepath standing next to her to.
In a way, it did. With white energy now gathered on her fingertips from her Aura. Weiss motions to the ground beneath her and a snowflake symbol appears that propels her forward at extreme speeds signifying the usage of a part of her Semblance. Summoning several glyphs around the giant for her next attack.
Despite the Wraiths attempts to slash at her, Weiss disappears and reappears all around it, leaping through the air using her glyphs and landing a blow with each pass.
Winter mentally smiles, L however remained with a serious expression. "You're overextending yourself." He comments aloud. Winter hadn't noticed it.
After a slash to the face, the giant armor aims at Weiss' feet, who leaps over it and gets an undefended fist to her head. Weiss is launched yet again onto her hands and feet a few metres away, but this time, her attempt to get back up is weak and hesitant, or disorientated, it's difficult to tell from where L is standing. Winter visibly frowns as L lets out a deep hum.
She stands back up, eyeing the Wraith with blood trailing down the left side of her face and holds out her sword, spinning the revolver in the hilt until a red energy appears over the blade. Fire Dust. The giant armor runs up and rams its sword at her, but it meets her rapier and is deflected off, L letting his smirk sound once again.
Weiss switches it up and spins the revolver, a cyan light now creating a wave of ice when she strikes it into the ground that freezes the Wraith in place. It swings again, but Weiss runs ahead and jumps on the sword.
Myrtenaster is now glowing yellow with Thunder Dust, she rolls on the broadsword and slashes at her foe, destroying the ice crystals in shards of purple, impaling its weapon into the ground.
She rotates the hilt again and a snowflake circle spins under her when the giant adversary tries to hammer its fist down on her, but she rolls out of the way and activates the glyph, launching the warrior up into the air and becoming trapped by Weiss' beams of blue energy.
"Creative." L remarks as he observes her movements, learning along the way of Weiss's fighting style and Semblance usage as something to note for later down the line, but either way, he knew that the Game, Set and Match went to Weiss now.
It's just a matter of finishing the opponent.
With one final leap into the air, Myrtenaster glows with white markings on its blade and she descends onto the Wraith, finishing it off with a final slash. When her attack is done and she lands in a crouch, the black hollows of the enemy light up and crash to the ground in a shower of ice and snow behind her.
"Fatality." L says with a deep voice.
She hears slow clapping as the boy she saw earlier walks through a wall and towards her. She blushes and does a short curtsy, feeling the familiar warmth as he touches the wound on her face, healing it quickly. "That's going to scar over." "I...I don't mind." She responds slightly flustered, the light blush still adorning her cheeks
"Alright then. You can go to Beacon Weiss." At this she smiles to herself, keeping her excitement in her mind for now, instead focussing on the individual in front of her. "I don't think I know your name?" At this L chuckles and facepalms. "Oh! Silly me, apologies for not introducing myself."
And in this, L would demonstrate exactly what three of the four parts of introducing yourself as a person and making it memorable are: Less is always More, the Setting of your Environment and Focussing on the Other Person.
"I am Leanardo Stason, I realise my name may be inconveniently long however, so call me L." L says with a smile kissing Weiss's hand as a gentleman should, Weiss giving another curtsy as she introduces herself formally. "Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company." At this L smiles to himself. "Come, you've got things to pack." At this, L offers his arm which Weiss gladly accepts, the two slowly exiting the arena.
L can feel Winter in the background glaring daggers at the back of L's head as he walks off with Weiss, if he wasn't her superior she'd be dragging him off to the side and...having words.
(I'll be honest, if this continues I think I'm going to have to give him an achievement unlock.)
Back in Patch.
"Well, we're almost here. And I think they've set up fireworks?..." Sophia's mother questions as they pull up in front of the house of the most well known family on Patch. Sophia looked on at the very least slightly confused at the multi-coloured lights appearing behind the house, all of the occupants of the car screaming as Yang lands on their car bonnet, basically crushing the front of the car.
The Husband screamed the loudest and most high pitched.
Yang groans and rolled off the car gradually getting back to her feet whilst holding onto the freshly crushed car, her expression of grogginess being almost instantly removed as she see's the family in front of her, then looking at the car, then them, everyone remaining silent at the awkward situation.
"Uhhhh...sorry?" Yang says with a smile rubbing the back of her neck.
"You guys can come out, don't think many more of us are gonna fall out the sky." As Yang says this Taiyang comes bursting out of a window of the house, grinding to a halt on his feet. "Yang! What's the hooooookay..." Taiyang slowly pauses as he see's the car and the Scarlatina's. "Ah...right. That might explain it. REINFORCEMENTS HAVE ARRIVED!" He shouts as he opens the doors.
"Sorry to be like this but we really need your guys' help." Taiyang says with a light grin, sweat pouring off his forehead, every member of the Scarlatina family stepping out of the car, the father frowning at the front of the car which looked like a meteor had landed on it.
"Ah don't worry about it, my brother will fix it in literal seconds. Speaking of which we need help taking him down." Yang says as her Semblance re-activates and she charges off, straight over the house, an explosion happening soon after.
"Tai?...What's going on?..." Garnet Scarlatina asks, the father of the two cutest individuals on Remnant, Velvet and Sophia Scarlatina. "Well, we're currently in a war with my son." He says with a light smile and a completely nonchalant tone. Every member of the family looking at him as if he's lost a few screws.
"And why is this?" Iris Scarlatina asks, the mother of the family of four. And more sane looking ones right now.
"Well, he's pretty much invulnerable and everyone in the family has never beat him in a fight. He's also got some Warriors Pride in him. And honestly, being with him, fighting with him is actually relieving, you fight with your all but, it's just, relief. I don't know how to explain it properly." Soon enough another car pulls up beside the Scarlatina's, two very familiar individuals stepping out in their full gear.
"So, where's the party at?" Jacky asks with a surprisingly calm voice that Taiyang only ever saw from him when he saves his hyperactivity for brain power. "They're in the garden, there's two of him, and he's using his physical body only and usage of his Semblance." At this Sarah steps out of the vehicle as well, fully equipped for battle.
"You never said he couldn't read your mind, that's going to be a problem. L is incredible when it comes to combat proficiency." Sarah comments as they look up. The screaming of a white cloaked individual becoming more and more audible, Summer then landing in Taiyang's arms, smirking. "Well hello there Angel, dropped from the Heavens just for me~" Taiyang says, eliciting Summer to blush and kiss her husband.
"We'll reinforce Yang and Ruby." "Zwei joined in to." "Your...dog?..." Sarah asks incredulously as she watches Jacky use a grapple to leap over the building and start firing arrows. "More like 'living cannon ball'." Summer comments as she gets back to her feet. "Right. See you on the field, this is going to be some good stress relief." Sarah comments before closing her eyes and being launched by a very loud sound akin to a canary which makes the Scarlatina family cover their ears in pain.
"I'm gonna go suppress his flank." "Okay, be careful." Summer responds as Taiyang jogs off, Summer turning to the still confused Scarlatina family. "So, tea anyone?" She asks hopefully.
Change of Perspective a few seconds later.
"Taiyang is about to drop from the tree." Got it. L is having a lovely time right now, stress relief is awesome when your entire family can vent the same way and actually enjoy it, well. That and boredom.
The next punch Yang throws he counters and slams her face into the tree he was pressed up against, the bark shattering from the force, Taiyang landing on Yang as the tree falls over.
L then catches two arrows and swats away another, the one he swats away exploding as he notices two new challengers. Cheating lil... L grins as he steps over to the centre of the playing field again. "Been looking forward to this." Jacky says as he spins an arrow between his drawing finger rapidly, Ruby and Zwei landing on his left and Blake on his right.
"Considering your brain power is probably enough to stand up to mine on a lazy day, I knew you would." At this the second L proceeds the kick him from behind making him stumble forward, Blake instantly attempting to deal with it via several slashes to the chest which he dodges. The first L then launches Jacky into the air with his Psionics skidding under him and dodging a swipe from Ruby's Crescent Rose in the process.
He proceeds to sweep Blake's legs out from under her, the second L catching her wrists and slamming her into the ground before flinging her upwards, the first L using the second L as a lift to launch himself at Blake with a Psionic blast which Blake meets with her own, a look of determination etching along her face. L grins as he stops the Psionic field, pushing his face past her own field and pecking her lips.
Blake's eyes widen and her concentration shatters to a million pieces momentarily, eliciting him to then spin kick her into the ground hard. As L lands, Blake groans in slight pain, obviously being out of the action for the time being.
Not even a moment later, L dodges several swipes coming from behind him and sixty small arms rounds in total all firing at him at an incredibly fast pace which he had to guess came from a pair of SMG's. He turns to use his right arm to block the downwards strike to reveal a blonde haired Cat Faunus, he smirks and chuckles.
"Couldn't find any Grimm so you had to come to fight me didn't you?" At this the women smirks in kind, L bending back enough so that he could use his legs to launch her over him, Jacky catching her and placing her on her feet as Ruby slices the clone of L in a horizontal line, it disappears quickly in a shroud of purple particles.
"What do we know?" Sarah asks as the four stand opposite L who slowly turns to them, his shirt sticking to him, not because of sweat, well, sort of. It's using the moisture in his skin to make sure the shirt can't be tugged on without someone actually tugging on his skin. Have no risks.
"His clones aren't as skilled as him but are enough to hold us off. Anything the primary L does would normally be lethal but I get the feeling he's augmenting our Aura somehow. Whenever he summons a clone his ability to fight seems to go down in efficiency by a very slim percentage, likely because he's consciously having to control the clones he creates." At this L smirks, getting into stance.
"Very well done so far, Jacky. But it looks like you still need to learn something." At this they raise an eyebrow. "Don't monologue." Before they can even blink Sarah is sent flying into a tree by a kick from a Psionic clone, before Jacky can even react the clone kicks Jacky behind the knee and then proceeds to kick him so hard in the head he goes flying into the house and lands in the dining room, where he finds the Scarlatina's sitting at the dinning table with some herbal tea.
He waves at them, smiling a little, they wave back awkwardly as they look at him. "I'm alright. Just gonna lay here a while." Summer looks down the corridor to see the back door in tatters and L dodging attacks from Ruby who's speed and weapon had kept her afloat so far. Summer disliked the fact her door is broken.
L eye's widen slight as by instinct, he bends all the way backwards and spreads his legs barely enough so Crescent Rose barely misses his crotch and one of Summer's Gauntlet blades misses his torso. "Phehehehehew! That! Was a close one!" L says to himself with an actual scythe of relief.
(Scythe of relief.)
Without a second thought L spins himself to his feet, instantly rushing Ruby which she didn't account for, which became obvious as L struck her hip and arm at pressure points, making sure, Ruby couldn't run and couldn't use Crescent Rose to get out of the defeat.
Before he can finish however, L dodges a kick from Yang by backflipping not only around the leg but over Taiyang trying to sweep his legs, continuing to backflip until he's a suitable distance away, then catching Zwei who was kicked at him like a football, tossing him straight back at Ruby who is nearly instantly knocked to the floor, Zwei going cross eyed to show his exhaustion.
"Velvet, Sepia, so glad you could join us." L says as he bows after finishing his backflips, adding a little showmanship to his performance. Ruby crawling over to a deck chair and pouring herself some lemonade, Zwei falling flat beside her huffing and puffing with his tongue out. "Don't call me that..." Sophia murmurs. The sisters standing beside Yang. Four Martial Artists, a master and three Adept's versus a Jack of all Trades. The Ace of Spades. The Joker, a King. (Very, very obscure reference.)
L does his equivalent of a sign of respect, his four opponents doing their own before they each get into their own stance. Taiyang's and Yang's being similar to boxing with a very closed guard, only bouncing on their toes to allow for higher reach with a sudden kick and keeping themselves moving. The Scarlatina sisters going into what would outwardly appear to not be a stance.
This is a misunderstanding of how these two fight, which being honest isn't the most effective when fighting a martial artist such as L, but these two know this and they'll still try their best. He knows they will. They straighten their legs and set in a stance similar to a ballerina would have as they're beginning a performance.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" L asks as three more clones appear, one for each individual. Each one having their own form of L's current stance.
Within seconds they start charging each other and it is within seconds that they realise that L is a much smarter fighter than they care to admit.
As each combatants are about to clash, all three clones simply vanish, L moving his head by inches, letting Sophia's leg slide on his shoulder as he slides on his knees, picking her up by the ankles and rapidly tossing her into Velvet. Both of which letting out a grunt as they fall to the floor, Yang barely able to block any of the kicks L throws at her whilst he's in a hand stand.
Taiyang attempts to kick L in the chest, the kick connecting but L catches it and latches one hand onto his foot and the other onto his leg as he lets the force of the kick roll him into a standing position, flinging Taiyang in the process, L instantly having to turn and block several strikes thrown by Yang, managing to get an elbow in.
As L catches a fist and is about to turn the situation to his advantage, Velvet launches a kick at the back of his left knee, connecting and making him kneel, however, L expected the next kick to the side of his head which he swatted away, pushing Yang away and slamming his fist into the ground to force his enemies away from him.
He starts dodging and swatting away slashes from a pair of swords before deciding that now would be the time to let his body do the work. His heart starts beating faster and faster as he closes his eyes and concentrates on his environment and on blocking.
He catches an explosive arrow and within seconds slams the fist that caught the arrow into Sarah's gut knocking the wind out of her and jabbing the arrow into her armour, knocking her away right as the twins manage to kick his side.
The explosion drained Sarah's Aura, just before said explosion could go off however, she launches a concussive blast at L leading him to be launched onto his back, rolling a couple of metres until he flips onto his feet again, temporarily deafened due to his ears sensitivity to noise.
"Very impressive." L comments with a whisper before charging at the Scarlatina sisters who prepare for his immanent arrival. He proceeds to block the first strikes from the two of them before separating from a clone rushing forward at Sophia, making her stumble backwards, Velvet however took this chance to start rapidly kicking L in the head, gut and side as fast as she can, managing to score every hit.
However she soon realised that who she's attacking is a clone, otherwise he would've been able to block by now, she quickly finishes the close by a lethal kick to the throat causing it to vaporise. She turns around to find Sophia trying to get any amount of hits in but only finding L swatting away the kicks or blocking them.
Soon enough though he manages to push Sophia away and bend backwards, dodging Jacky attempting to smack him across the head with his bow, instead hitting Velvet and sending her spiralling away, a look of realisation dawning his face just as L does a cartwheel backwards, both of his feet connecting to his face and sending him twirling to the ground.
L proceeds to predict Taiyang's attack behind him and Dragon Tail Kicks him in the face hard enough so that he takes a tree down with him. He turns, having to block a fist but not predicting the leg going to drag his knee forward. Not getting enough time to predict any actions, L manages to block the next two kicks from Sophia but however misses his chance to block Yang as she kicks him up into the air, grunting in the dulled pain as it happens.
It doesn't take long for L to recover as Sophia shoots up to the sky to meet him, L dragging Yang into Sophia with his Psionics and breaking her concentration further with a peck for Sophia's lips. "Chu~" He teases as he grabs the pair and holds them above him, sucking in a breath as a he bellows the magic word. "SHAZAM!" The pair are struck by lightning despite it being a clear day.
The two grit their teeth from the pain before being spun around in circles rapidly before being let go, flinging the pair into the ground at terminal velocity. The two groaning as they're knocked out of the fight due to shattered Aura.
L lands with a roll blocking a downwards kick from Velvet letting the leg slide down his shoulder and arms before grabbing her ankle and slamming her into the ground beside her sister making it crack as her Aura shatters.
"Yield." L says before getting into stance for anyone that wished to challenge him further, with a smile that indicated nothing but well wishes and a warm heart. Velvet smiling as Yang starts laughing. "Okay, okay, you win Mr. Try Hard." Yang says with more laughter, everyone else starting to join in, even L.
At this everyone sets up benches and gets themselves looked at, complaining of stiff limbs. "You could've gone easier on us you know." Taiyang says as he rubs a sore bicep. "Quit your moaning you have a wife to kiss it better Tai." At this everyone chuckles at Garnets jab.
"SO, how did my daughters perform Mr. Stason? I wasn't a Huntress myself but you are very good." Iris compliments as the food starts getting set out along the tables. "Thank you, the two of them performed exceptionally well, Velvet more so due to her 'photographic reflexes', Sepia also performed exceptionally well." L says with a monotone, flexing his fingers and claws, Velvet, Blake and Sophia staring directly at him.
Sophia not even caring about him using her nickname which she detested.
He just playfully winks at them, eliciting each of them to look down to hide their embarrassment, Yang laughing her head off to the point she falls off the bench.
(Achievement Earned:- Lady Killer.)
Summer then sets the last of the food down along with Iris. "Don't start being antisocial Leanardo." Summer says with a light smile, everyone filling up their plates with their preferred food and having a laugh in the process.
Something isn't right. Blake thinks to herself as she spots the bruising on his hands, she can see his body trying to heal him, but it's like something isn't letting him and she knows that he knows whats wrong.
Summer makes sure everyone doesn't eat before L stands up, keeping the bruises on his hands hidden as he takes his glass of Shandy up with him. "Ladies and Gentleman. Hunters, Huntresses. And those with potential." L says as he looks at Ruby, giving off a pout as a response. "Tonight we celebrate the beginning of a formation, of a new chapter in our lives. For every person on this table has earned a place here. All of you have shown loyalty, passion, determination and purity of heart in your actions." Everyone starts smiling as they listen intently.
"Know that wherever you may be on Remnant, you will have someone watching you. Know that with Vigilance and with Courage, you may continue to protect those who are innocent from those whom may seek to destroy that which we know. Peace. As much as our world remains in unrest, besides Yang, she tends to get a bit more sleep than others." At this everyone chuckles as L continues.
"I want all of you to know that where we're going is somewhere where we will endure hardships. We will experience pain and loss. We will fall to our knee's in exhaustion. But whether you like it or not, you're getting back on your feet eventually. Because none of you are people to sit down forever. I hope you will not become Heroes that shall always be Remembered. But instead, become Legends that shall never die. Legends that shall light the way to an age of light none have ever witnessed. So take your time. Learn and prepare. But eventually the clock will start ringing and you will have no choice but to wake up from the fantasy we've all been living in." He looks at his hands then everyone else with a determined expression, raising his glass.
"To Beacon. To all of you who I may call friends and family. A new chapter. To Glory we shall boldly walk. Oh, and there will be a tonne of loot!" At this everyone raises their glass and cheers before L sits down. Pressing his hands together in prayer, most others eating, Blake watching him curiously, not thinking him to be the overly religious type.
"Good Hunter...My hands are cold, but as steady as ever. I stand ready in times of doubt. When the seeds of Fate are yet to be sown. I beg of thee, a touch of warmth that stills the crying soul. The rousing child. I beg of thee not Mercy, but instead a healing hand. I cannot use these tools in a time of rest and celebration. Would you be so kind as to grant me this wish? My Lady." Blake's eyes widen as her bow twitches slightly, hearing the whispers of a woman, she can't make out what she says other than sounding familiarly like something she'd seen in a book before...but her eyes widen when L's hands set alight, no one seemingly noticing, the flames going out revealing his hands healed.
"Thank you, Good Hunter. I wish you a bountiful catch next morn'." She's definitely going to have a conversation about that later down the line.
Elsewhere in Vale 40 minutes later.
"Well, I don't know where or who those people were, none of my contacts in ANY government do. They're calling what happened at the towers and accidental detonation of demolition charges and Miles isn't returning any of my calls." An annoyed ginger haired individual says whilst puffing with his unlit cigar.
"You should. These individuals are not to be trifled with and need to be captured." A deep voice speaks without a face through a cloak
"Why don't you go ask the woman that seems to be completely nonchalant when it comes to telling me the plan. Because it would be nice if anyone and I mean anyone would tell me. Hell, I'll hear it from one of these bozo's." He says as he points behind him to the men he'd picked up from a local black market connection.
"Besides the point Mr. Torchwick. Just keep an eye out for them."
"Concerned?" A voice like silk asks.
The woman then frowned as she watches the robed individual steadily walk away as if gliding.
"Okay don't fry me for saying this but didn't he used to be a little more talkative?" Roman asks the woman next to him, who stares at the cloaked individual as they disappear inside a Bullhead.
"It doesn't matter, we have a robbery to undertake." At this, Roman sighs in frustration, attempting not to slam his head into the map behind him with equal frustration, standing up, taking his cane and starting to walk away. His whistle signalling the men around him to follow him, Cinder continuing to stare at the Bullhead
"Why are you so concerned with Him?...He can't beat me now." She says quietly.
Vale.
"You didn't have to walk me back." Velvet says with a light blush, the five individuals walking together down the quiet pathways of Vales suburbs.
"Why not? Blake needs to go to Beacon, Yang needs to get more ammunition and Ruby was lucky enough to come with us to see her favourite magazine before the shop closes." At this Ruby appears in front of them all, walking backwards, barely being able to hold her excitement.
"I know! There's going to be a flame thrower guitar and a Shield that's also a sniper rifle, oo, oo! Don't forget the Shotgun Chainsaw combo!" Ruby listed off as Velvet didn't really know how to react to Ruby's...Hyperactivity?...Other than to find it cute.
"Well, this is my shop, don't have too much fun without me guys and don't forget to wear a-" L covers Yang's mouth and pushes her into the store as Velvet says. "Take care!" Without actually realising what Yang was about to say. At this the four wave at Yang as she browses the shop called 'Ammunation.'
"Ruby, head on up to your shop, I'll tp us to Beacon otherwise Blake is going to be late." At this Ruby nods and says her bye before running up the street in a trail of roses.
"Ummm...what does tp mean?" Velvet asks as L simply grins, Blake turning to Velvet and stating quiet simply. "You're going to feel a little nauseous." At this Velvet frowns and her ears droop slightly as she gets a bad feeling. Before each of them suddenly fall into a black hole which closes up immediately.
Velvet opens her eyes to find herself standing in Beacons courtyard in front of Professor Ozpin, which is when the dizziness kicked in. She starts letting out slow breaths as she pales slightly, ears flattening on her head. "Ms. Scarlatina would you like to go to your dorm with the rest of your team?" Ozpin asks, Blake staring at Ozpin.
At this Velvet nods, L guiding her forwards. "I'll meet you in your office Ozzie." At this the Professor sets his eyes on Blake. "Ms. Belladonna?" At this Blake snaps out of her musings and looks Ozpin in the eyes. "I'm sorry for staring." "It's alright. Come, let's discuss you entering my school somewhere less open?" At this Blake nods and follows Ozpin to what seems like an interview room. A dark one at that. It made her feel slightly uneasy but it's her chance to do what's right. As L promised her she could and Would.
Ruby Rose.
Being perfectly honest. The life of the man 'G̷̛̙r̵̩̿a̶͉͌ỳ̴̠s̵̹͂ọ̸́n̷͚̍' by his old friends has been a good one. Despite qualifying through Beacon academy, as his parents wanted him to. He still found no interest in being a Hunter but rather, a businessman. And Gods did he become a good one.
By 25 he'd gained the qualifications and skills of many different areas of business including the laborious areas. Construction, Engineering, Architecture, Accounting and even became a renowned Chef in Mistral. But all of this was interrupted by the love of his life 'S̴̯͛c̵̝̎a̵̧̓ŕ̸̗l̵͕̀ë̵̙́ẗ̷̪', who he proposed to and married in the exact same year.
Had a few kids by 32, ran multiple business by 40. But age eventually catches up to you. And by 53 he'd retired and when he reached 60 his Wife passed away, his kids still visit from time to time and you can't stay permanently out of work, to keep himself distracted at the very least. He still runs a couple of small business like this one, From Dust till Dawn.
He's starting to wish that he didn't go back into work and instead dealt with his grief via another means.
Like Skydiving despite having a fear of heights.
"P-please! Just take my Lien and leave!"
At this Roman quietens the man. "Shhh, shhh, shhhh shhhh, we're not here for money." At this he turns to the henchmen with him. "Grab the Dust."
At the order from their superior they take some specially designed cannisters from specialised cases and connect them to the tubes at the side of the shop. At this one of the Henchmen also places a briefcase onto the counter. "Crystals. Burn. Uncut." At this the Shopkeeper nods and starts filling up the briefcase.
Soon after this, one of the henchmen notices the sound of rock in the background...
Well, to say that this issue of the magazine is awesome, is without a doubt the understatement of the century. In fact, Ruby is so engrossed in the magazine that she can't hear the henchman beside her shouting at her to turn around and put her hands in the air.
Until he turned her to him, her hood falling down to reveal she's wearing headphones.
He makes the gesture to remove her headphones with an annoyed expression, which she does politely, without any hostility.
"Yes?" She asks.
Then he goes and does this.
"I said, put your hands in the air! Now!"
"Are you...robbing me?..." Ruby asks with a tilted head.
"Yes!"
Karma incoming.
"Ooooooooohh..." Ruby slowly smirks.
Ruby then starts to execute something her brother taught her, suddenly becoming Bruce Lee.
"Wha-" Before he can get another word out, Ruby palm strikes him in the solar plexus, removing the air from his lungs. Then she kicks him straight in the batteries, whispering an apology before spin kicking him past Roman, who simply looks at the groaning henchman with a tired expression that says. 'I've had too little sleep for this...'
He calmly nods to another henchman, going back to looking at the Fire Dust crystal in his hand, the henchman he nodded to running over to where Ruby is and aims at her. "Freeze!" Before he can react however, Ruby tackles him out the shop window, the landing knocking the henchman unconscious due to him having paper thin Aura.
The other men look outside as Ruby gets up, Crescent Rose unfolding into its scythe form. Roman scowls but hides his need to punch someone. Ruby simply smiles back at them before twirling the weapon around, striking it into the ground and turning off her headphones.
All the henchmen simply stand there with blank expressions. "Okayyy..." The henchmen then turn to Roman who in turn looks at them and says. "Get her." With a tone of voice that implied they should've done it five minutes ago, whilst keeping his usual sarcastic attitude.
The henchmen charge out of the shop and run at Ruby, who smiles and uses her scythe's handle to build momentum allowing her to boot the first criminal straight in the face, causing a part of his skull to fold inwards and glasses to fly away as he falls flat on his back straight back through the window his brother went through.
She grits her teeth slightly as she lifts Crescent Rose out of the ground, spinning along with the weight of the massive weapon, landing in a slightly crouched position, keeping an eye on her opponents. Ruby let's her mind concentrate as she fires off a shot, the recoil spinning her fast enough to send another henchman flying as the blunt end of her weapon collides with him.
She fires again and brings the tiny teeth like blades on the other side down on one attacker, dodging the next henchman's gunfire via the recoil of her weapon. Using her Semblance to dash in a zig zag motion until she gets close enough to knock him into the air and use Crescent Rose to pivot herself upwards enough along with him to slash at him hard enough to land at Roman's feet.
He looks down at said henchman and sarcastically comments. "You were worth every cent. You truly were." At this he looks up at Ruby and sucks in a sharp breath. "Well, Red, I think we can both say its been an eventful evening." He says as he crushes his cigar with his cane. Pushing the fact he can hear police sirens to the back of his head.
At this Ruby let's out her own slightly cocky smirk. "And as much as I'd love to stick around..." He trails off as he aims his cane at Ruby, said smirk on her face now being replaced by a look of 'oh crap.' "...I'm afraid this is where we part ways." At this he fires an explosive of some kind that Ruby hasn't seen before, despite it sounding like a firework. She ignored this fact for the moment and instead focussed on the flare like explosive heading her current direction and...what was the word?...Ah yes, dodging.
She fires into the ground, leaping over the projectile very easily as it causes an explosion that licks at her cape. After she lands again, she notices that Roman has disappeared, looking around the street until she spots him climbing up a ladder leading to a nearby rooftop. Ruby looks over to the shopkeeper and asks short and to the point. "You okay if I go after him?" The Shopkeeper giving a very short 'uh huh' before Ruby charges up the building like a bullet.
"Hey!" Ruby yells as Roman pauses at the other end of the rooftop. "Persistent..." As Ruby readies herself for combat, she's temporarily deafened as the whine of a Bullhead's engines flare up, said Bullhead flying up to meet Roman, the door opening to allow him on board. As he climbs on board and turns around, he holds up the Fire Dust crystal in front of her, Ruby's eyes widening as she realises what he's about to do. "End of the line, Red." Roman smirks.
He throws said crystal at her feet and fires at it, an explosion going off in a spectacular fashion, eliciting his happiness to skyrocket. It's the first time in three days that he hasn't felt like he wants to shoot someone or slam his head into something whilst crying in frustration.
"Whoa-ho-ho-ho!" This OF course HAD to be spoiled as he notices a silhouette behind the smoke cloud. "Huh?..." His eyes then widen as he see's something he really doesn't want to deal with right now.
A purplish portal closes behind the woman as at the same time, a protective ward fades away, pushing up her glasses with a short 'Hm.'
With a light wave of her riding crop several purple spears are sent hurtling towards the Bullhead, the collision causing Roman to go flying into the back of the vehicle, dropping his cane in the process before stumbling into the cockpit. "We've got a Huntress!" At this the woman in red at the controls rather than the one covered by an old cloak who Roman called Edgy.
All the time.
Got up and finally got to the entrance of the vehicle, her face covered by a shadow being cast due to how low the roofing is on the vehicle, hiding her identity from her foes. However as this happens, Glynda glows purple with her Aura, releasing an energy blast above the craft. This causes a dark storm-cloud to form right above the Bullhead, Roman cursing under his breath.
With a simple flick of her wrist, Ice spikes the size of spears started raining on top of the Bullheaded, pummeling it and even piercing some sections of armour, one spike narrowly missing Romans head making him glad he'd recently went to the bathroom. The cloaked figure next to him smirking slightly in amusement.
The woman in red smirks to herself as the Dust patterns on her dress light up like fire, flinging a burst of flaming energy at Glynda who easily dispels it, the debris of said energy making the ground glow like a flaming vortex. Said vortex letting off an eldritch screech as it exploded, Glynda easily back-flipping out of the way as debris littered the ground.
Glynda automatically uses this to her advantage as with a slight circular motion with her riding crop and the debris turns into her own personal rain of of death. She hurls the combined debris at the woman in red like a spear, said woman firing a few blasts of energy to slow and separate the debris, however, it reforms and aims for Roman, said person gritting his teeth as he tilts the Bullhead to ricochet the debris off of the aircraft.
Each line of debris formed smaller spears and started surrounding the Bullhead, before it could do anything however, the woman in red summoned multiple lines of runes around herself and let out a wave of energy that caused the spear like debris to start to fall to the ground. Ruby deciding now is the best time to intervene starts firing at at the Bullhead, the woman in red simply blocking each bullet with her hand, the shots being adsorbed by her Aura.
After this happens, several flaming vortex's appear around the two, each letting out their own piercing screech as they exploded. Glynda cartwheeling forwards whilst Ruby is pushed forwards by Glynda's telekinesis. As they look back up to the craft, its doors closed and beginning to fly away. Then they see a portal open up, above the craft, a hooded L slamming into the roof with a triumphant roar.
Heh, aim is till good! He thinks to himself as he starts dismantling the engine of the Bullhead he's standing on top of laughing slightly maniacally as the Bullhead struggles to keep itself afloat in the air before it nose dive crashes in a clearing of the South-western docking bays, L being flung a few metres away from the craft, instantly getting up and looking towards the craft.
The machine appears to be mostly intact, until someone starts cutting the doors hinges out. He deftly dodges the door as it gets launched at him, raising a leg to kick instinctively. And his suspicions are correct as his foot collides with someone wearing an old robe...Flashbacks of Weiss's description come to the forefront of his mind and he smirks.
The cloaked individual lands on their feet however, keeping themselves perfectly upright as they grind to a halt a metre outside of the crashed Bullhead, L's smirk disappearing as the woman in red, Cinder, carries Roman out of the Bullhead, his arm over her shoulder as support. L silently clicks a finger to cast a shadow over the top half of his face so he isn't recognised, consequently, his footfalls are also completely silent.
"Take care of him, we'll get a vehicle." Cinder orders as the cloaked individual simply nods, their face also being completely concealed by a shadow.
And their footfalls silent.
The cloaked individual starts summoning their sword in a manner that L finds...disturbing. A swarm of familiar red and black particles creates a sword completely different from L's.
The weapon itself is entirely silver, gleaming in the moonlight in its oh so deadly manner. The grip of the weapon is formed by swirls that flow around around each other down to the base of the pommel which contains a crystal yellow eye similar in design to L's eyes. As the hilt swirls back up to the base of the chappe, leading to the cross-guard which is angular, but flowing elegantly into shapes of a Ravens head at either end of the cross-guard. The fuller of the blade keeps up with the edge of the blade leaving roughly a centimetre and half between it to allow for better strength in the blade, the central ridge having a slight gleam from the moonlight all the way to the point of the magnificent blade.
L's face turns to one of slight anger at seeing the familiar blade, but in turn draws his own blade, based on body language, receiving a similar reaction to L's making the two of them even further in the depths of both anger and something that the two had almost never felt before whilst on Remnant.
Fear.
The sword L is currently looking at, is called Ken, meaning Mental Perception. Forged from the core of a star, and the power of a Black Hole by an individual who's Anger and Fury turned half of Hell uninhabitable and barren. For Demons.
And the sword the Robed individual is looking at is called Vengeance, gifted to someone from a very talented and maniacal forger to who at the time, thought the person before him was neither Angel nor Demon, yet still held the power of Holiness and Unholiness in their veins, their control over their abilities being so immense, the sword was said to have its own sword and like every weapon the forger ever made.
Thirst for the blood of its wielders enemies.
The two sword masters get into an almost identical stance, only the tiniest changes made due to either personal preference or adaptation.
And in the moments that the faceless individuals stared at each other, they made an instant connection, the world seemingly pauses as a pair of the most deadliest warrior's on Remnant are about to fight.
(Let me just grab my popcorn. Okay I'm back after having made popcorn and gone out to see a car show! I don't know why I did the latter, I just did! And there was a car with nothing but Danganronpa characters on it as Vinyls...I fanboyed to the point I'm actually a little embarrassed now.)
It's time to d, d, d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-DUEL!
Glynda and Ruby arrive at the same time behind L to see the two clash, but apart from that all they could perceive are just small areas where the sound barrier breaks, loud BOOMS accompanying every moment they went just below the speed of visible light.
However, for the two warriors, it's nothing but instinctual fighting. When the cloaked individual feigns an attack, L knows it and vice versa, whenever L goes to overpower his opponent by attempting to cut through the blade, they simply clashed, the crackling of thunder occurring as weapons vibrating at speeds faster than the human eye can trace attempt to cut through each other at the same time. However, neither backed down.
Syrus could only watch in awe as L and the individual before him moved in ways that she hadn't seen him move ever since he was fighting Death herself. And honestly, over the years Syrus had grown to appreciate art in all its forms. Right now, she is baring witness to a masterpiece.
Soon enough both individuals clashed in the centre of the area, causing the ground beneath them to crack, sparks flying off their weapons as they struggled to press their weapons against each others growing strength.
Soon enough however both of them gave way, forcing each other backwards before L fills his fist with Psionic energy, whereas his opponent filled their fist with their own black and red energy. As soon as the fists clashed, the two were sent flying either direction from an incredibly large white explosion, the cloaked individual crashing into a cargo crate filled with Dust nearby Ruby, Glynda pulling her off to the side after the two are snapped out of their stupor, L crashing into the Bullhead making it completely explode.
However, the both of them stood right back up, L putting on a glove and grabbing some powdered Dust, using his Psionics to spread it out along his blade, his opponent doing seemingly the exact same thing.
One way or another.
Someone is leaving with injuries.
Within a split second of each other they start charging, neither making a single sound as they hold the hilts of their weapons with both hands, dragging their blades behind them as they run, only their lips showing the snarl of Wrath from one and .
When they clash in the centre and go straight past each other, no effects are apparent, L stops at the side Glynda and Ruby are on and the cloaked figure stops at the side Cinder has just emerged from.
Nothing happens. Until the pair start bleeding from a perfectly straight vertical line on their chests. However, neither were deterred as they both turned at the exact same time, L drawing Pantheon and his opposite drawing what resembles a modified Thompson Center Contender G2. And they started shooting each other in a perfectly symmetrical pattern.
Each bullet fired, quiet simply, collided.
And surprisingly enough negated the bullet fired from their opposite. Neither of them reloaded no matter how many bullets they fired at each other, despite the cloaked individuals weapon being a single shot weapon, and L's being a six round revolver.
Cinder grabs the cloaked individual and drags them with her whilst they still fired at L, Cinder throwing energy blasts at L which he simply dodges whilst still firing, his opponent never stops firing their pistol and neither did L, neither of their hidden faces leaving an invisible eye contact.
He follows the pair to a car which he manages to fire one round at before having to backflip away from an explosion at his feet. He looks down the road to find the car had turned the corner, he then walks back out to the Dock that now looks a lot more messy with debris showering the place and a flaming carcass of a Bullhead, police swarming the area. Yet he still continues to walk straight towards Glynda and Ruby.
And then he collapses in front of them.
"L!" Ruby nearly gives off a high pitch yelp as she catches her brother who is out cold and bleeding, his healing factor not taking any effect.
Glynda places him in the recovery position and looks over to an officer. "We need to get to Beacon." At this the officer salutes and radio's in for a Bullhead. Glynda examines his wound and attempts to heal him using her own Aura, which doesn't work until Glynda realises why it isn't working from their conversation a few days ago.
Her expression hardens as she resorts to old fashioned first aid techniques which are rarely used in the modern world. Putting pressure on the wound, Ruby looking up at Glynda with teary eyes.
"Will he be okay?" She asks, L's face paling slightly, his breathing and heart suffering no change, but both of them are at a slow pace. Glynda looks Ruby in the eyes and replies honestly. "He will be." At this Ruby nods, the Bullhead starting to arrive...
Beacon Infirmary.
Ruby is currently snoozing directly next to her brother as he rests in an infirmary bed. Blake staring at L with an expression that adorns her face whenever she's thinking. "You can stop staring at me like you're trying to solve the anti-life thesis." At this Blake's eyes widen and she slowly steps forward and sits opposite Ruby on L's left, L unmoving, eyes closed.
"You're brooding." At this L smirks. "You've got that part of me nailed down." "It's easy to tell when you're rarely bothered by anything. But whatever this is, is causing you to think twice." At this L opens his eyes. "I'm not thinking twice...I'm thinking that I should just step back and away from all this. But I know that's exactly what..." He stops as Ozpin enters the room with a freshly brewed mug of coffee, setting down a tray of cookies and a cup of warm milk.
Ruby's nose twitches lightly before she yawns and opens her eyes, stretching. L rolling his eyes in amusement. "Miss Rose. I would like to discuss something with you." At this Ruby's eyes widen as she looks at Ozpin, blinking twice before straightening herself up. "Ummm...Yes?" She doesn't seem to have noticed that her brother is awake yet, which he's content with, letting his body extract the Dust particles in his blood stream and the wound in his chest before regenerating that area.
Ozpin smiling to himself at the fact she has silver eyes, however, not mentioning it, now knowing what L meant in their previous conversations by 'you'll see the potential.' "So, where did you learn to do this?" At this Ruby looks at the tablet, Ozpin holds up, Blake tilting her head in interest as L keeps his eyes closed, not needing to see how good his youngest sister is at using something his Wife used as a weapon of choice.
"Signal Academy..." Ruby says slightly nervously. "They taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons ever designed?" At this L thinks to himself. Well...she was given a list and she wanted to learn everything on the list despite the fact we told her she couldn't learn everything...so we had to make a compromise somehow..."Well, one teacher in particular..." "I see." At this Ozpin places the tray of cookies and warm glass of milk by Ruby, eliciting her to slowly start consuming them without noticing her physically noticing.
"It's just that I've only seen one other scythe-wielder of that skill before. A dusty, old crow..." At this Ruby nods enthusiastically and speaks with her mouth full. "Mhm! That's my Uncle!" At this Ruby swallows and wipes her lips before apologising. "Sorry. That's my Uncle Qrow! He's a teacher at Signal. I was complete garbage before he took me under his wing. And now, I'm all like, Hooowaaah! Witchaaaa!" Insert more Kung Fu and Karate based noises and moves here.
Blake smiles lightly to herself as Ozpin sips his drink. "So I've noticed." L is trying to hold in his laughter. "And what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing at a school designed to train warriors?" She does seem a bit too childish to be at the school. Blake thinks in her head with a light smile. "Well... I want to be a Huntress." Ruby says as she looks at her feet, twiddling her thumbs.
"You want to slay monsters?" "Yeah! I only have two more years of training left at Signal! And then I'm going to apply to Beacon!" And this is the part that usually only L and a couple of others can keep up with.
Hyper Fast Mode."You see, my sister and brother are starting here this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, my brother just becoming stronger than ever, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I wanna help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" At this Ruby let's a giggle as she goes on...and on...and on...
"I mean the police are alright, but Huntsmen and Huntresses are just so much more romantic and exciting and cool and really, gosh, you know!" Unable to hold in her excitement she let's out an extremely excitable smile, raising her hands in the air. At this everyone in the room studies her. Some staring.
Though this didn't deter the little star.
"Do you know who I am?" Ozpin asks.
"You're Professor Ozpin. You're the Headmaster here at Beacon. My brother told me a lot about you." Ruby says with her ever growing smile.
At this Ozpin smiles in a mixture of warmth and amusement. "Hello."
"Nice to meet you!" Ruby says with even more enthusiasm.
Sugar Rush.
"You want to come to my school?" He asks with his expression remaining the same as ever.
"More than anything." Ruby says with a smile on her face and determination in her eyes.
At this Ozpin looks at L who stares at the tablet for a few seconds, trying to decide to himself if now is the time this world will need another...he then looks back at Ozpin, who is waiting entirely for L's opinion.
He nods an affirmative.
Ozpin looks back at Ruby before saying. "Well. Alright."
At this Ruby's eyes widen and her mouth opens to let out air, only no sound comes out.
"Blake, take her back to the house for me would you? Dismissed." L says, Blake nodding to L before taking a still dumbfounded Ruby through a portal that L opens for them. Ruby giving L a small thumbs up which he responds with a wink.
Once the two are gone however, his face crumbles into anything but positivity.
Silence reigns over the room for the next minute or so.
"Can everyone please leave the room." At this the medical staff that are there nod to the Headmaster and exit the area, closing the doors behind them, Ozpin looking directly at L who looks like he's just lost something very close to him.
"Well, this isn't my office and it seems like we both have bad news." Ozpin says whilst sipping on his mug of coffee.
"No shit." L murmurs, wiping his face down with a sigh.
"You first." He says to Ozpin.
"The Fall Maiden arrived earlier today." At this L looks at Ozpin with a hardened expression that to some would seem angry, but to Ozpin, it's the expression of a calculating predator.
"She was attacked by three individuals. Qrow managed to save her before she was killed." At this L let's out a sigh of relief.
"At least his Semblance didn't come into effect this time...I'm sensing a But though..."
"But something is wrong, a part of her power is missing." At this L nods in understanding.
"That's good and all Ozpin...But we have bigger fish to fry." At this Ozpin tilts his head, L isn't usually like this.
"Your bad news is worse isn't it?" Ozpin asks with a frown.
L simply nods slowly.
"What is it?"
At this L looks at Ozpin with a tired expression, that's a mixture of regret and sadness.
"I don't know yet. I want to make sure first." At this Ozpin tilts his head quizzically.
"Do you know what my people's middle names are for?" He shakes his head as a no.
"When you're created. You are given a Fate by who we thought at the time was Fate, but it wasn't, it was the one above all, the man upstairs that everyone is quiet about. We believed the Fate of individuals could be narrowed down to three or so words. Embodiments." At this Ozpin listens intently, always interested in learning more about the enigma before him.
"My name is Leanardo Vita Voluntas Animus Stason. Leanardo means someone who is attracted to the arts, things like poetry. Vita means Life, I don't need to say much more. Voluntas means Will or in my case Willpower, the power to never give up. Mostly because I'm stubborn. And then there's Animus. The Masculine form of Anima, though both have basically the same meaning which is Spirit, or Soul, Animus having a secondary meaning: Passion or Wrath. Along with a root meaning of Intellect or Mind. And Stason is my family, which is like a surname, its meaning is usually universal for the family members and there isn't an English translation for the meaning so I'll leave that out. Do you think my name suits me?" At this Ozpin thinks before nodding an affirmative.
"Its worked with every single one of my species. And it is rare almost impossible people suffer the same Fate. But I get the feeling that someone who shares my blood and name has shared an exceedingly familiar Fate to mine. And now we're both in self-conflict over whether or not we should kill each other." At this Ozpin raises an eyebrow.
"Why is that?"
"We went to the same school...Hell's Gate's." Ozpin frowns at the implications for a name of such as 'Hell's Gate's' as the name of a School. "When you go to Hell's Gate's. You become a warrior. Or you die." At this L starts chuckling to himself. "Hell's Gate's was the place that you evolved or that was it, that place the equivalent of Hell and they made you go through it to learn to be the ultimate warrior. Only around...seven people ever graduated including my two brothers, myself, my sister, my best friend and my wife. Don't remember who the seventh person was. Though that was probably their Fate." L rolls his eyes at his joke.
"You still haven't told me the bad news."
"I'll get back to you on that. I want to make sure it's real and not just some coincidence that's made me...I don't know how I feel." At this Ozpin stands up, L also standing up, his clothes forming back on him, his body having enough energy to begin genetic alterations to turn solar radiation into sugars.
"I'll check on the Maiden tomorrow evening, see what I can do to help. See you tomorrow Ozzie." At this Ozpin nods his thanks before L walks through a portal and into his bedroom where he simply collapses again.
He manages to get himself into a position where he can meditate and begins accessing not only his memory, but also a number counter he glances at every few years..."30 million." At this L smirks and starts chuckling to himself, a smile crossing his lips as he lets out a few tears of joy, not feeling bad that he hadn't told Ozpin the whole truth.
"Bellum se ipsum alet..." L reminds himself, both in its literal strategic sense and philosophical sense.
"...Unius voluntas decidat fatum esse." Another reminds themself, in the sense of describing ones Ultimate Power and one's Ultimate Judgement, a great weight.
"Now things are getting interesting..."
"...So why are you on their side?" They say in unison.
Species - L - Culture - Names - The name in which L's species have usually depict a "Story of their life." As well as the traits this person may develop as they go with age. Whilst this was once thought to be a religious practice done by L's people (with scary accuracy,) it turns out that this is in fact just a method of his people interpreting what will happen throughout their life, what they will become, what they will embody. An Avatar so to speak. Each of his people despite being innumerable is an Avatar of something with sometimes overlapping Embodiments leading them down their individual lives, it is however, impossible to have an exactly identical life as someone else. This is however seemingly negated if L's story is to be believed. (Consult: Paradoxes - Life.)
It is not impossible however, to have two Fates which are extremely similar. Despite having a different Embodiment, two individuals can cross paths with similar lives as they may have subset Embodiment's (Similar Embodiments, whether they be generalised in a subject or more specific in their category.) or Embodiment's that may be conflicting. Such as War and Peace.
Despite this, it is also not impossible for conflicting Embodiments to actually like each other, as is proof with Fate and Karma, two of some of the uplifted individuals of L's species. Both of which being married and in partial control of Dimension level abilities and responsibilities. Another example is Life and Death. (Not to be mistaken with (Title.) Death) Who were married, until Death was consumed by [REDACTED], her soul then being reincarnated to [REDACTED] before dying during The End War. Death's reincarnated Soul resides in Heaven whereas the original, corrupted version, remains somewhere.
The Family name apparently works like a Surname, in identifying which Family you come from in society much like our own. The children of the parents can choose either one of their parents Family name or simply both, either way, they will be welcomed into the Houses of both Families.
Species - Gods (Exalted, Uplifted etc.) - Fate - Fate is a God who's sole responsibility is the continued management and maintenance of Time itself. (Not to be mistaken with the (Gods) Time.) He is a energy based being who has abilities that can only be canceled out by those of equal and higher power than himself. Normally when Fate physically appears before someone, he appears as the most powerful being (Other than (Gods.) God.) in the Dimension at that given point of physical appearance, his physical age of said being acting as a method to tell you how much he likes or dislikes this person. Older for negative and younger (minimum estimated 20 years old.) for positive.
He often avoids any form of interference with anyone or anything outside his reality to maintain Time. Unless it threatens anything he may be invested in or takes his interest. Such as Dimension destroying events.
So, there we have it.
In the process of making this chapter I have Fanboyed to the point I looked like a Fangirl as is the way I get excited. (I had a metric tonne of sugar before hand I couldn't help myself.) L is having Happy Depression I don't know how that works but it's probably something to do with the SkeletØn Clique. And have realised that Alucard is Dracula backwards and is our lord and savior. The More You Know :D
Also, when the next chapter releases, the pole closes and if it's still a draw then I decide who L is paired with from those who drawn. SO get voting! ^^ Double also! Person who voted recently, you still have one vote left unless either pole glitched or you just wanted to pick that individual then that is also fine!
Also, check this out. RWBY - Uptown Funk [AMV] Luke K. It's absolutely awesome!
And Triple Also, happy 100k words...yay.
[REMINDER:- STOP BEGINNING EVERY SENTENCE WITH "ALSO".]
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